Chapter 18
Which of the following was not one of the reforms implemented by the National Assembly to dissolve the Ancient Regime?
Abolished the clergy
Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew the _______ to established his consulate.
Directory
he two dissenting groups within the National Convention were the
Girondins and the Mountain.
Under the Constitution of 191, the ______ would make the laws
Legislative Assembly
was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.
Maximilien Robespierre
The Directory was eventually toppled by
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who seized political power from the Legislative Assembly?
Paris Commune
What was the episode called in which peasants took up arms against the aristocrats because they believed the aristocrats had organized an army to kill them?
The Great Fear
Which of France's estates was NOT exempt from the taille?
The Third Estate (commoners)
The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo in Belgium
The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was
a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution
The Paris Bastille was
an armory and prison
Napoleon's Civil Code treated women
as less than equal to men
What did the historyguide.org author claim made the Revolution radical?
attack on the King's palace
Promotion within Napoleon's new bureaucracy was
based on ability only, not rank or birth
According to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy,
bishops and priests were to be elected by the people and paid by the state
which of the following groups was not part of the Third Estate?
clergy
According to the historyguide.org author, which of the following was not an accomplishment of the French Revolution:
created a new democratic France
The Committee of Public Safety was originally set up to
defend France against foreign armies
The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to
defend France from threats
Which of the following was not a problem France faced after the execution of King Louis XVI?
dictatorship
The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute
enemies of the republic
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed
equal rights for all men, but not political rights for women
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed all of the following EXCEPT
equal rights for women
The Paris Commune demonstrated, then seized power for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
loyalty to Prussia
The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were
ordinary patriots without fine clothes
In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, the National Convention:
pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so far as to adopt a new calendar
The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by
retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside
Napoleon's agreement with the Catholic Church did all of the following EXCEPT
return church lands to the pope and clergy
During its rule, the government of the Directory was opposed by
royalists and radicals
The Second Estate did all of the following EXCEPT:
side with the peasants
Napoleon's Continental System was designed to
stop British trade with Europe
The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was
the Civil Code
The three major parts of Napoleon's Grand Empire were:
the French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states
The difference between the Girondins and the Mountain was that
the Girondins leaned toward keeping the king alive, while the Mountain wanted the king executed
Napoleon's military force was called
the Grand Army
What were two major reasons that Napoleon's Grand Empire collapsed?
the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism
Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees because
thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family